Mind of Christ

What exactly is the mind of Christ? I am familiar with the love of Christ, the passion of Christ, but I think the "mind of Christ" is much too expansive for me to wrap my thoughts around. Too funny!  Can you even picture my thoughts around His!

I can read the red letter in scripture, hear His words, follow His actions, but I am not sure that reveals the mind of Christ? I mean, I am reading the account of one of several that either experienced first hand the presence of Christ or gathered the information and presented it.  I am reading it in this day at this time.  The 21st century.  As hard as I might try, I can even begin to understand the time, the culture, the social strata, the political system, or even the humor and/or sarcasm of the day.   Don't get me started on the translations, interpretation, and illustrations that we have done to the gospels over the centuries.

I am beginning to think the Sermon on the Mount (or Plain) is the closest thing we have to His thinking out loud - a "what it looks like to think like me" exposition. As I look back over my life I am saddened by the fact that I have converted these thoughts and ideas into an impossible "To Do" list. If He came to my time, to my town, to my hillside what would I hear? I am thinking I might hear him say something like this. "The life I am talking about is so radical, if you were slapped, you would turn the other cheek. To resist murder is easy, but what if hating were the same as murder?"

It is still impossible. But maybe I have to think outside the box, or in this case my mind. Am I limiting his words in light of the boundaries and limitations of my earthly body. Like one of those popular motivational speakers of today, perhaps he was looking at more than "me" What if the mind of Christ is not me getting into His head, but Him getting into mine. Can you imagine what my friends and family would say. "She is just plain out of her mind". And I would say" No, Jesus is just taking up residence!"  What a trip - literally!